The eye is the guide for hand and foot, for it sees (both) the right and the wrong place.

پیشوا چشمست دست و پای را ** کو ببیند جای را ناجای را

Another thing is that my eye is clearer; another, that my nature is purer,

دیگر آنک چشم من روشن‌ترست ** دیگر آنک خلقت من اطهرست

Because I am one of the lawfully begotten, not one of the children of adultery and the people of perdition.3405

زانک هستم من ز اولاد حلال ** نه ز اولاد زنا و اهل ضلال

Thou art one of the children of adultery: without doubt the arrow flies crookedly when the bow is bad.”

تو ز اولاد زنایی بی‌گمان ** تیر کژ پرد چو بد باشد کمان

How the mule declared the replies of the camel to be true and acknowledged his (the camel's) superiority to himself and besought his aid and took refuge with him sincerely; and how the camel treated him with kindness and showed him the way and gave help in fatherly and kingly fashion.